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The Lord of the rings memes communitiy on Lemmy. Share memes about Lord of the rings and be respectful.

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[–] megane_kun 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for this breakdown. I've been previously exposed to this kind of thing back in Reddit, but your explanation added some more perspective about it.

However, my question is really more about how the blind (and visually impaired people--both of which I lumped under the term "visually impaired") experience and enjoy image-based memes. I can't really imagine such memes without the associated image, as they're doing a lot of the heavy lifting in terms of conveying the context (of the meme) and all its associations.

Still, thanks for the explanation. I am supposing that what the image does for me the description does for the blind (and visually impaired).

[–] BornVolcano 3 points 1 year ago

I do my best to encapsulate the necessary experience of the image in my transcriptions (for example, I'll employ comedic timing in memes and funnier images if I can, or describe what is seen in the order my brain processed it in), but there's only so much a transcriber can do.

I'm not entirely sure how blind/VI users experience these sorts of transcriptions, since I'm fortunate enough to be a fully seeing individual, but if anyone who is part of that community would like to chime in with their experiences it would be really valuable to learn!